What happens if National Community Church stops praying?
Wow! I think the very first thing that comes to mind is we would get bored. Soren Kirkegaard said boredom is kind of the ultimate sin. I don’t think you can live a Spirit-led life and be bored at the same time.
So when you stop praying, it takes the supernatural element out of what we’re doing and the church becomes a club. There’s no conviction of the Holy Spirit, no miracles—then the church stops being a movement and becomes a museum to what God has done in the past.
If you want God to do something new, you can’t keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different, and I think prayer is the difference between you fighting for God and God fighting for you.
So if we stop praying, we’re on our own and I don’t think we’re going to get very far. When you start praying, it begins to create some of that momentum you can’t manufacture—it’s God beginning to move.
